Ingrid J. Parker is a detective/mystery writer. She is best known for creating
Sugawara Akitada, who solved crimes in the
Heian era of ancient Japan.
Personal life
Ingrid Parker was born and raised in Germany.
[Official IJ Parker web site]
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She was, until retirement, Associate Professor of English and Foreign Languages at Norfolk State University in Virginia. Writing detective mysteries set in ancient Japan was an incidental result of initial research into 11th century Japan out of professional interest in Japanese literature
Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or , a Chinese-Japanes ...
of the era. She was also influenced by the Judge Dee mystery series written by the noted orientalist and diplomat Robert van Gulik
Robert Hans van Gulik (, 9 August 1910 – 24 September 1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century ...
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Bibliography
Sugawara Akitada
See Sugawara Akitada for a complete bibliography.
Other works
*''The Hollow Reed vol. I: Dream of a Spring Night'' (September 2012, Ingrid J. Parker Inc.)
*''The Hollow Reed vol. II: Dust Before the Wind'' (September 2012, Ingrid J. Parker Inc.,)
*''The Sword Master'' (October 2013, 2nd edition, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, )
*''The Left-Handed God'' (December 2013, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, )
References
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21st-century American novelists
American mystery writers
American historical novelists
American women novelists
Writers of historical mysteries
Living people
Women mystery writers
21st-century American women writers
Women historical novelists
1936 births